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United States Patent | 5,128,861 |
Kagami ,   et al. | July 7, 1992 |
In an inventory control method and system, changes of sales for individual goods are forecasted and the excess or deficiency of a stock of each of the goods at the present point of time is estimated from the results of forecast. In order to facilitate an inventory control, merchandise information is sorted and displayed in accordance with the degree of urgency, the degree of importance or the like of inventory adjustment on the basis of the results of estimation.
Inventors: | Kagami; Akira (Kawasaki, JP); Homma; Koichi (Yokohama, JP); Akashi; Kichizo (Ebina, JP); Aizawa; Takayuki (Matsudo, JP); Mori; Hiroshi (Ebina, JP) |
Assignee: | Hitachi, Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Appl. No.: | 442055 |
Filed: | November 28, 1989 |
Dec 07, 1988[JP] | 63-307825 |
Current U.S. Class: | 705/10; 705/28 |
Intern'l Class: | G06F 015/24 |
Field of Search: | 364/403,401,408 |
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4783740 | Nov., 1988 | Ishizawa et al. | 364/403. |
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